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Demetria Daniels

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718-885-6576 A chatty, informative column of New York events featuring places, people and personalities and celebrities. demetriadaniels@gmail.com

 
HAPPY NEW YEAR
BEST BETS
EL GRECO EXHIBITION at the Onassis Cultural Center - Feb 27, 645 5 ave.
Early training in icon painting on the island of Crete, coupled with his
stay and study in Venice led EL Greco to a mystic exhuberant style of
manneristic elongation and movement as seen in "The Coronation of the Virgin".
Known as Domenikos Theotokopoulos, he moved to Toledo, Spain to continue
his religious paintings, and natural landscapes.

BEST BET
Marlene Tseng Yu: Forces of Nature at the Chelsea Art Museum.
Marlene is one of the outstanding leaders of the green movement.
With two simultaneous shows both in China and New York, Marlene's huge paintings, (some are 36 feet wide) cover the entire space at the museum. They are filled with movement and depict nature with exhuberance of color and movement.This is her major solo show. She depicts the impact of global warming and natural phenomena- and can you believe - she is a grandmother.Vice-President Gore, are you listening?

BEST BET:
Christies auction of the Degas pastel on paper of the ballet dancers for $9.6 million dollars.

BEST BET:
The lamposts - first scene, and the snow at Cirque de Soleil - WINTUK

BEST BET: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, COLUMBUS CIRCLE
the MADELINE ALBRIGHT show based on her amazing book - READ MY PINS. A colection
of her 1,000 lapel pins she wore throughout the world while representing
the United States as Secretary of State- Animals, florals, politicos, birds
and extraordinary others.

BEST BET:
Look for HOLIDAY IN HEAVEN, a romantic/fantasy musical soon coming for a staged reading.
posted by Demetria at 11:32 AM